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Welcome To Monday ~ Monday 3rd October

Seriously how is it October already? I haven’t even gotten started on my new years resolution about world domination! Enjoy the Monday linkity-links, and remember that we link to many articles, not all we agree with, but all that we believe are worth thinking and talking about.

Panther Award

Tits and Sass’s Suzy Hooker has a really interesting and intelligent article responding to a recent article on the language used around sex work. She gets really stuck into the notion that sex workers “sell their bodies”, arguing that she employs her body; she herself as a person is not ‘up for sale’. Quote of the week: that the language employed by anti-sex work feminists “assumes I’m regularly putting myself in dangerous and degrading situations, and that I’m too stupid to make positive, conscious decisions for myself. These assumptions about my stupidity and weak character degrade me much more deeply than my work ever has.”

Comics and women are a notoriously complex and often irritating issue; the only women in comic strips with normal sized boobs are the ‘ugly’ ones. Laura Hudson has an intelligent analysis of why the ‘sexually liberated’ action heroines are really anything but.

And then the Australian Defense Association jumps in and says “oh why, nasty, there will be more dead soldiers if this happens”, and a disproportionate number of female casualties. Oh and there will be ‘cultural diffiuclties”. Really dudes? At least come up with a new creative way to say “women are crap fighters and their vaginas get in the way of the guns”. The Big. Manly. Guns. Not that I’m in favour of ANY soldiers dying, but really kids, can we at least talk about the real issues? The military has made some important steps but it is by and large a boys club that doesn’t easily accept women. Let not pretend that the problem is that one pulls a gun trigger with one’s penis.

So, men broke the universe. Seriously. Some dudes think they have measured a particle moving at faster than the speed of light, which is meant to be the fastest speed in the universe (except of course for how quick I can eat camembert). Anyway, they repeated the experiment, redid their results, and are now really freaking out and have asked the scientific community to lease, please prove them wrong. Cos if they’re right then, well, physics. Kind of broken. Oh and this guy promised to eat his shorts if they are proven right. Feminist related news? Not really. A brilliant demonstration of how even the things we take the most for granted can be questioned? Darn right.